POWHATAN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Powhatan County Public Schools students traded in their pencils for chefs’ hats on Tuesday, March 18, during a live cooking competition. Hazel Long, a second grader at Pocahontas Elementary School was crowned the winner of the Future Chefs Culinary Challenge. She ma de an Asian chicken salad, while the five other students she competed against made cinnamon rolls, spaghetti with a twist, French toast bread, a chocolate possum cake and baked zucchini with a meat and tomato filling. Hazel Long, a second grader at Pocahontas Elementary School, won the Future Chefs Culinary Challenge. Two students from each elementary school — Powhatan Elementary School, Flat Rock Elementary School and Pocahontas Elementary School — were selected, so six students in total competed. They first had to submit a recipe of their choosing.   Each student had an assistant, their very own sous-chef, to help them prepare their dishes. Once the students were done, they presented it to a panel of judges made up of school board members and two students from Powhatan High School.    The competition was started by Sodexo’s Future Chefs program, and schools across 30 states participate in a contest just like this one.   The goal is not only to have fun in the kitchen, but to teach the students about nutrition and the mathematics that goes into cooking when measuring ingredients for a recipe.   ...read more read less